Do you think war in general, solves anything?

Question

I don't want to start a controversy, just your opinion. Does war solve anything?

Answer 1

In the place called reality, conflict brings change. Unfortunately, there are people that do very wicked things such as the genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, and various other acts of mayhem. The people that do such things aren't going to stop doing them because somebody says "pretty please don't do that.". If someone, G-d forbid, broke into your house and held your family captive with a gun and was going to rape all the women and children and kill the men, how would you want the situation handled? Would you want the police to come and do whatever it took to protect you and your family from the intruder? What if that meant killing the person? Isn't that like a small war? Would that be a justified war since the intruder was going to kill and harm your family? Assuming you would want your life protected, do you think the police coming would solve anything or at least potentially solve anything? If the police didn't come and protect you, would you try and protect yourself? Isn't that also like a small war or conflict? When things happen on a much larger scale than a single intruder into a residential house happen, do you think that war could solve anything?

Answer 2

Not always and not everything, but war absolutely can solve difficult controversies.

As has been stated before, war has successfully resolved impending problems that led to the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the U.S. Civil War, among many other examples throughout world history. All these wars were the culmination of decades of growing tensions and underlying causes that exploded in the outbreak of armed conflict. For example, the French Revolution signified the beginning of the end of European monarchies. The American Revolution introduced a new era of representative government. The U.S. Civil War essentially ended the legacy of American slavery.

However, the aftermath and political climate following WWI ended up causing more problems than it solved, resulting in the conditions that developed into the problems that WWII was able to address, such as Nazism and European genocide.

War can indeed some problems, but it is a weapon not to be used impulsively nor recklessly, especially in the modern age of nuclear technology. Albert Einstein once said "I know not with what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones."

Answer 3

The Unknown Soldier

We were soldiers, through and through
Who did what we were told to do
We could not ever question why
We could only kill or die

This stump where my arm should be
I got it in the war, you see?
While I was in the trenches
A bomb knocked out my senses

And took my arm to God knew where
But no one said that war was fair
I've come to be known as an amputee...
Bombs make for poor removal surgery (strategy)

There were many like me in the fight
On both sides who thought they were in the right
And lost an arm, or leg, or even a head...
Who died before the enemy was dead.

Now that you know who I am
I'll tell you of one we'll call Sam
Today Sam is a pile of bones
In the tomb of the unknowns

A lady came after many years
And asked for help, with solemn tears,
of science and the government
wanting permission for disinterment

Her children had grown without a dad
And she was forced to give all she had
to be a good mother, and father too
in times when only one or the other would do

So, head held high with fine composure
She was determined for some closure
And boldly knocked on bureaucrats' doors
Just to be pointed down other corridors

Months would pass, she got her way
the bones were dug for DNA
You see, the woman thought that our friend Sam
Could possibly be her missing man.

And like in a paternity test
DNA would lay the matter to rest
The strands of which, like a cryptogram
Hold the secret code of poor old Sam

Cells were extracted from many a bone
that made up the remains of the Unknown
And then some cells from the children's hair
were taken and processed to compare

Four science teams were then assigned
Each to see what it could find
Cells from the legs, arms, chest and skull
were divided up among them all

Cells from the chest where the heart's concealed
Were checked and they revealed
That, indeed, with very little doubt
Sam's identity was found out

The scientists smiled at their success,
and felt they could tell the lady "yes"
Science had made them satisfied
Her husband's bones were identified

But their pride was very short to live
For another team came back negative
When comparing the data they found with dismay
The leg bone and hair had unmatched DNA

Then came the skull team, negative also
And the arm team was soon to follow
So that one of the four showed positive
and three of the four showed negative

The chest team's tempers were unwinding
and they hotly defended their finding
that they were right and the others wrong
but the other teams' fuses were also not long

So instead of looking for testing faults
the weary teams let fly insults
and they might have blackened eyes and busted jaws
If one hadn't seen what he thought he saw

For one doctor's mouth went wide and swore
He saw our Sam who died in war
Turn over on the table where he lay...
But then these men had a very long day

This distraction tore down all defenses
and brought the doctors to their senses
For these were men of brains, not brawn
And if they could, they'd think 'til dawn

They decided they'd check each bone against the others
to make sure that they were truly brothers
And to their shock and utter chagrin
They found no bone had a DNA twin

The arm bones, the leg bones, the chest and the head
Weren't related, except through being dead
Someone had buried these parts together
bones that were not birds of a feather

These skeletal remains had appeared intact
but they were not, and as a matter of fact
Sam's bones were the parts of many men...
And my right arm was one of them!

http://www.geocities.com/darkpoems2000/unknown_soldier

Answer 4

My opinion - I'm not sure war solves anything, but I understand that sometimes it is necessary to keep other things from getting out of hand. Sometimes countries have to set limits, and enforce those limits by declaring war against their agressors. I think it should always be used only as a last resort, however. Hope this helps.

pallison11971
http://www.pallison11971.com

Answer 5

Since you can never tell, what would have happened, if we would not have gone to war, its a question with many answers.
Lets' take WW1.
If the USA would not have gone to war, Germany would have won, United the Continent and Europe would have been 100 years ahead and WW2, Nazis and Jew Killings would have never happened, even Israel would have not been founded.
Let's take the civil war:
If the North would have left the South alone, the North would be today a much richer country, because most of our tax money goes to support the south today. Vacations in Florida would be much cheaper and Governors of Texas couldn't be Presidents

Answer 6

solves lots of things in all honesty. over population. great depressions. the economy goes up if your winning. jobs become available. and economically it helps and if you don't like something someone else is doing it helps out and keeps the minds of the people at ease. for instants if you go to war for the right reasons your public will be happy with you. I'm not saying everyone will but the majority will. for instants their are people who don't like war period and you can't do much about that but even those who don't care for war so much if your pissed off at another country and we go to war with them over it it will ease the public a bit you know what i mean. also we are not the good guys contrary to popular belief everything has its ups and downs. but we could be worse than we are. so i guess we are good to a point. but no where near perfection because war wouldn't happen if that was the case. but yes it actually has a lot of good things happen by going to war the only real downside is the death of our soldiers and people in general and casualties.

Answer 7

A " war in general " solved the problem of you not ever having to worry about not having the "freedom and the knowledge" to ask this question ? Likewise for the ones` who answered this question !! Most of the answers you have received on here are from people who have taken their freedom for granted !!

Answer 8

It depends on what you're declaring war on... if its an ideal then war can't solve the problem (ie a religion) it can only cause further frustration and built up stresses, but if its a physical problem (ie WWII era Germany) then it could save countless lives and help to remove a great evil from our world.

Answer 9

Study history and make that determination for yourself.

My opinion is yes it does solve an objective.


By the way the Vietnam War did solve something as well.
Even though it ended for us in a political defeat, even though militarily we were never defeated, it reunified a country, and forced out what they saw as a foreign invasion.

Answer 10

I am surprised at all these answers people are posting for this question. I am sure they are stating their personal beliefs, but if you look at it from a history point of view, yes war does solve things, alot of things. Now if you re-worded your question to "Does THIS war solve anything" you could better answers by the previous posters.